From 22a9901148f362ea66aec2e82a743417b0e7d962 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Austin Chen Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 08:15:40 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Feature Nonlinear as a charity --- common/charity.ts | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ web/components/charity/charity-card.tsx | 2 +- 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/common/charity.ts b/common/charity.ts index 72f96983..ecc9f89b 100644 --- a/common/charity.ts +++ b/common/charity.ts @@ -56,6 +56,35 @@ export const charities: Charity[] = [ - Promoting long-term thinking`, tags: ['Featured'] as CharityTag[], }, + { + name: 'Nonlinear', + website: 'https://www.nonlinear.org/', + photo: 'https://i.imgur.com/Muifc1l.png', + preview: + 'Incubate longtermist nonprofits by connecting founders with ideas, funding, and mentorship.', + description: `Problem: There are tens of thousands of people working full time to make AI powerful, but around one hundred working to make AI safe. This needs to change. + + Longtermism is held back by two bottlenecks: + 1. Lots of funding, but few charities to deploy it. + 2. Lots of talent, but few charities creating jobs. + + Solution: Longtermism needs more charities to deploy funding and create jobs. Our goal is to 10x the number of talented people working on longtermism by launching dozens of high impact charities. + + This helps solve the bottlenecks because entrepreneurs “unlock” latent EA talent - if one person starts an organization that employs 100 people who weren’t previously working on AI safety, that doubles the number of people working on the problem. + + Our process: + 1. Research the highest leverage ideas + 2. Find the right founders + 3. Connect them with mentors and funding + + We will be announcing more details about our incubation program soon. + + A few of the ideas we’ve incubated so far: + - The Nonlinear Library: Listen to top EA content on your podcast player. We use text-to-speech software to create an automatically updating repository of audio content from the EA Forum, Alignment Forum, and LessWrong. You can find it on all major podcast players here. + - EA Hiring Agency: Helping EA orgs scalably hire talent. + - EA Houses: EA's Airbnb - Connecting EAs who have extra space with EAs who need space here.`, + tags: ['Featured'] as CharityTag[], + }, { name: 'GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund', website: 'https://www.givewell.org/maximum-impact-fund', diff --git a/web/components/charity/charity-card.tsx b/web/components/charity/charity-card.tsx index 2bf8f879..13a871b1 100644 --- a/web/components/charity/charity-card.tsx +++ b/web/components/charity/charity-card.tsx @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export function CharityCard(props: { charity: Charity }) { return (
- + {tags?.includes('Featured') && }